• Owner delivered short speech at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground
• José Mourinho returned to Cobham to collect the last of his things
• José Mourinho returned to Cobham to collect the last of his things
Roman Abramovich told Chelsea’s first-team players they needed to take responsibility for redeeming their dismal season, as the club prepared to welcome Guus Hiddink as the caretaker successor to the sacked José Mourinho.
Abramovich visited the training ground in Cobham on Friday and the owner delivered a short speech to the squad, in which he also said it had been a difficult decision to dismiss Mourinho. In the end, though, Abramovich felt he had no choice, given the disintegration in the team’s form. They go into Saturday’s home game against Sunderland only one point above the relegation places.
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